Hyena society is a strict matriarchy, with dominance passing down the female line.
The hyena ran off around the corner.
So hyenas are unusual, the females; they don’t just have a pseudo-penis and a fake scrotum, but they’re also bigger than the males and they’re more aggressive.
And the one hyena pulled off the giraffe's leg and it started running across the savanna.
to fight against the hyenas when they've taken the kingdom, and eventually find Simba and come back with Simba, and rally the troops, and fight, and eventually reclaim
the kingdom from the hyenas.
odors that match the Hyena's sex age species and social
They're there with hyenas, down to little mice, insects, birds.
But for the female hyena, there’s absolutely no way that the male can force himself on her because she has to be completely compliant in order for him to be able to mate with her.
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I was working on my hyena den and I was too busy.
We'd go out to the hyena den.
So we were filming a pack of hyenas that were feeding on a giraffe.
we bed yesterday eaten by hyers or other wild animal at night because we duck only just shallow grape because there
the Jane Goodall of spotted hyenas, an amazing scientist who has been studying them in the wild for years and years and years—when I asked her, she said that she thought that
before things such as wildlife uh lions and hyenas or other thing were
She got there and she slept with the hyenas; she was really scared.
animal kingdom. The spotted hyena is an extraordinary creature.
So the idea that Harvey Weinstein was described as a hyena when this is an animal that is
But the last line in the book, watch hyenas drink rain and laugh-- I like the last poem.
"Researchers have begun to unravel the information and social content embedded in the hyena's uncanny laugh. Younger hyenas have high-pitched giggles.
malevolent creatures. The truth about hyenas is that they are really, I think, more like the feminist icons of the
eggs in antib biotic producing bacteria that stop the chicks within the eggs from Catching disease the spotted hyena
peril. This is a lone female who's defending her baby against hyena attack, picture taken
this year by someone called James Wells in Botswana. And the hyenas are closing in on her baby from all directions and she's out there defending, kicking with her feet, chasing
The reason why—I think it was The New York Times that was comparing Harvey Weinstein to a hyena—was because they are seen as these aggressive, unpleasant, cowardly, malicious,
organ, the pseudo-penis, because the female hyena will actually copulate, urinate and give birth through it.
could dunk a basketball. There were giant deer with antlers bigger than a dinner tape. There were American lions and hyenas. Incredible time of mammal diversity. These mammals had to live
- Right, but they've got the distance, so yeah, so it's much more, uh- ...hyena or wolf-like strategy than like a
Everything from boomslang snakes, through to green iguanas, through to hyenas, shell ducks, ostriches.
And there were sometimes when I'd go out with them and nothing exciting would happen-- just lay there all night, and a hyena would
So although we think of Africa as being a very large continent with lots of wildlife, they don't do well because lions and hyenas steal their food, kill their young,
So, very recently, during the whole Harvey Weinstein scandal, Weinstein was compared to a hyena.
So you’ve got to think, 'Hello evolution, what were you thinking when you evolved the pseudo-penis in the hyena?